Content by Subject 2025/26

Council & its committees

All changes to legislation made by Council and its committees and published in the Gazette during the 2025/26 academic year.

  • Council

    • Dates of Extended Terms 2024–25 and 2025–26 (corrigendum), p94
    • Divisional Boards, p4
    • Employment of University Staff, p2
    • Environmental Sustainability Subcommittee, p123
    • Financial Regulations, p4
    • Information and Digital Committee, p122
    • Michael Davys Professor of Neuroscience, p124
    • Oxford University Alumni Board, p123 (corrigendum: p138)
    • People Committee, p4
    • Sabbatical leave and dispensation from prescribed duties, p2
    • Safety Executive Group, p122

  • General Purposes Committee of Council

    • Colin Duff Memorial Fund, p96
    • Creet–Warner Fund, p97
    • Pao Music Fund, p97
    • Rhodes Professor of American History, p94
    • Speaker’s Lectureship in Biblical Studies, p95

Congregation

All resolutions, legislative proposals, changes to regulations and other business submitted to Congregation and published in the Gazette during the 2025/26 academic year.

  • Resolutions

    • Conferment of Degree by Diploma: His Excellency Frank-Walter Steinmeier (announced 30 Oct: p111) (carried 13 Nov: p139)
    • Conferment of Honorary Degrees: Lady Elish Angiolini, John Kerry, Dinah Rose, Professor Irene Tracey, Sir John Curtice, Christina Lamb, Dr Dominic Sandbrook, Professor Jonathan Haidt, Isabella Tree (announced 13 Nov: p140)
    • Space allocations:
      • Eagle House to the Department of Engineering Science (announced 25 Sep: p7) (carried 9 Oct: p35) (approved 16 Oct: p70)
      • Littlegate House to the Uehiro Institute for Practical Ethics (announced 25 Sep: p8) (carried 9 Oct: p35) (approved 16 Oct: p70)
      • Old Boys High School to the School of Geography and the Environment, for occupation by the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment (announced 25 Sep: p8) (corrigendum 2 Oct: p14) (carried 9 Oct: p35) (approved 16 Oct: p70)
      • St Cross Building to the Faculty of Law (announced 25 Sep: p8) (carried 9 Oct: p35) (approved 16 Oct: p70)
      • Tinsley Building to the Department of Engineering Science (announced 16 Oct: p71) (carried 30 Oct: p111) (approved 6 Nov: p125)

  • Legislative Proposals

    • Changes to Congregation Regulations 3 of 2002: Religious Services and Sermons (announced 25 Sep: p7) (carried 9 Oct: p35) (approved 16 Oct: p70)
    • Statute VII: Divisions, Faculties, Sub-faculties, Departments and the Department for Continuing Education (announced 25 Sep: p6) (carried 9 Oct: p35) (approved 16 Oct: p70)
    • Statute XIV: Employment of Academic and Support Staff by the University (announced 25 Sep: p6) (carried 9 Oct: p35) (approved 16 Oct: p70)

  • Changes to Regulations

    • changes to the Conduct of Ceremonies in Congregation, and certain other Ceremonies (announced 6 Nov: p126)

  • Other Congregation business

    • Clerks of the Market, admission (announced 2 Oct: p15) (reported 9 Oct: p34)
    • Pro-Vice-Chancellors, admission (announced 2 Oct: p15) (reported 9 Oct: p34)
    • Vice-Chancellor's Oration 2025 (announced 25 Sep: p6) (reported 9 Oct: p34) (published as supplement: p81)

Register of Congregation

The following is a list of all of the Gazette notices of staff added to the Register of Congregation during the 2025/26 academic year. They are listed in order of the issue in which their name appears. A full listing of the whole Register of Congregation (as it stands at a particular date) is published in Hilary term each year.

Degree by Resolution

The following is a list of all of the Gazette notices of staff awarded an MA by resolution during the 2025/26 academic year. They are listed by the date of the Gazette issue in which the resolution was announced. Single sign-on login is required to read these notices*:

Elections

The following is a list of elections held during the 2025/26 academic year as published in the Gazette. They are listed by category and then by notices of vacancies, nominations published and results. Further information about elections within the University of Oxford can be found on the Elections website.

  • Elections by Congregation

    • Audit and Scrutiny Committee (vacancy announced: p42) (uncontested election result: p132)

  • Divisional Board Elections

    • Social Sciences (vacancy announced: p42) (uncontested election result: p132)

  • Faculty Board Elections

    • Classics (vacancy announced: p43) (uncontested election result: p132)
    • History (vacancy announced: p43) (lapsed vacancy: p133)
    • Linguistics, Philology and Phonetics (vacancy announced: p43) (nominations received: p131) (candidate statement: p131)
    • Music (vacancies announced: p43) (uncontested election result: p133) (lapsed vacancy: p133)

Notices

Consultative and general notices published in the Gazette during the 2025/26 academic year

  • Consultative notices

    • Call for nominations for Honorary Degrees and for Degrees by Diploma, p36

  • General notices

    • Gazette website survey, p112
    • MSc in Clinical Embryology (dissertation deadline date), p16
    • University Calendar 2025–26:
      • Michaelmas term online edition published, p37
      • print edition published, p37
      • print edition orders open, p127 

Appointment-related notices

All notices relating to the appointment and recognition of distinction of staff and visiting professors at the University published in the Gazette during the 2025/26 academic year

  • Appointments and reappointments

    • Statutory Professorships and other senior positions

      • Professorship of Civil Engineering (Deborah Greaves), p37
      • Lincoln Professorship of Classical Archaeology and Art (Athéna Tsingarida), p37
      • Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Education) (Freya Johnston), p17
      • Headship of the Department of Education (Leon Feinstein), p20
      • Professorship of Geography (Robert Hilton), p20
      • Directorship of the Oxford Internet Institute (Dr Scott A Hale), p142
      • WA Handley Professorship of Psychiatry (Armin Raznahan), p37
      • Headship of the Department of Social Policy and Intervention (Kenneth Nelson), p20
      • Professorship of Transplantation (Fadi Issa), p19

    • Other appointments, reappointments and conferments of title

      • Humanities
      • Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
      • Medical Sciences
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      • Social Sciences

  • Visiting Professorships

    • Statutory Professorships

      • Winant Visiting Professor of American Government (Emily Zackin), p20

    • Other visiting professorships

      • Humanities
      • Mathematical, Physical and Life Sciences
      • Medical Sciences
      • Social Sciences
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  • Recognition of Distinction

    • Successful candidates 2025, p21
    • Conferrals of title, p100 

  • Electoral Boards, Advisory Committees and Selection Committees

    • Electoral Boards

      • Professorship of Environmental Geography, p22
      • Little Princess Trust Professorship of Paediatric Oncology, p38
      • Professorship of Statistics and Professorship of Statistical Science, p127

    • Advisory Committees

      • content will be added as it is published

    • Selection Committees

      • content will be added as it is published 

Lectures

All lecture notices published in the Gazette during the 2024/25 academic year

  • Termly supplements

  • Other lecture notices

  • Call for submissions

    • International Conference on Opera, Performance and Culture, p141
    • Organisational Behaviour in Health Care conference, p72

Events & exhibitions

All notices relating to musical and other events and exhibitions published in the Gazette during the 2025/26 academic year

  • University Sermons

    • Michaelmas term: p16

  • Musical and other events

    • Botanic Garden and Arboretum (16 Oct, p72)
    • Brasenose (16 Oct, p72)
    • Christ Church (2 Oct, p24)
    • Exeter (2 Oct, p24)
    • Merton (9 Oct, p39)
    • Faculty of Music (30 Oct, p113)
    • St Cross (9 Oct, p39)
    • St Hilda's (2 Oct, p24) (9 Oct, p39) (16 Oct, p72) (23 Oct, p100) (30 Oct, p113)
    • St John's (13 Nov, p142)
    • St Peter's (30 Oct, p113)
    • Trinity (9 Oct, p39)

  • Exhibitions

    • content will be added as it is published

Student-related notices

All notices relating to students published in the Gazette during the 2025/26 academic year

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  • Supplications for higher degrees*

    • content will be added as it is published

  • Viva voce examinations*

  • Prizes awarded to graduate students*

    • Ancient History Prize (Faculty of Classics), p38
    • British and European History 1700–1850, MSt (Faculty of History), p23
    • Chancellor’s English Essay Prize (Faculty of English), p38
    • Early Modern History 1500–1700, MPhil (Faculty of History), p23
    • Economic and Social History, MSc (Faculty of History), p23
    • English Poem on a Sacred Subject Prize (Faculty of English), p38
    • History, MSt/MPhil (Faculty of History), p23
    • History of Science, Medicine and Technology
      • MSc (Faculty of History), p23
      • MPhil (Faculty of History), p23
    • History of War, MSt (Faculty of History), p23
    • Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize (Faculty of English), p38
    • Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, MSt/MPhil (Faculty of History), p23
    • Lord Alfred Douglas Memorial Prize (Faculty of English), p38
    • Medieval History, MSt (Faculty of History), p23
    • MSc in Migration Studies, MSc (Department of International Development/School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography), p23
    • Modern British History, MSt (Faculty of History), p23
    • Modern European History, MSt (Faculty of History), p23
    • Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, MSc (Department of International Development/School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography), p23
    • Shelley–Mills Prize (Faculty of English), p38
    • Sir John Rhŷs Prize (Faculty of English), p38
    • Sir Roger Newdigate Prize (Faculty of English), p38
    • Women’s, Gender and Queer History, MSt (Faculty of History), p23

  • Prizes, grants and funding offered

    • Faculty of English:
      • Chancellor’s English Essay Prize, p47
      • English Poem on a Sacred Subject Prize, p47
      • Jon Stallworthy Poetry Prize, p47
      • Lord Alfred Douglas Prize, p47
      • Matthew Arnold Memorial Prize, p47
      • Shelley–Mills Prize, p47
      • Sir Roger Newdigate Prize, p47
      • Sir John Rhŷs Prize, p47
    • St John’s College, Cambridge:
      • Benefactors’ Scholarships, p108
      • Louis Cha Scholarship, p108
    • University of Cambridge: Ernest Oppenheimer Studentship, p148
    • University of Oxford: international opportunities, p147

College notices

All notices relating to memorial services, obituary notices and the election of staff in colleges, halls and societies published in the Gazette during the 2025/26 academic year

  • Obituaries

    • Merton (2 Oct, p28)
    • St Hilda’s (2 Oct, p28)

  • College elections

    • Jesus, fellowships (6 Nov, p133)
    • St Hugh's, Principal (2 Oct, p27)

  • Memorial services

    • Keble

      • Professor Vincent Gillespie, 2 Oct, p27

* certain student-related content published in the Gazette can only be read online by current University staff or students, because it is covered by a prohibition on publishing outside the EU under data protection legislation